[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)

[Balcaen John]

Le vendredi 21 octobre 2011 00:29:46 Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Due to upcoming changes to systemd and friends we'll likely need to use
> dracut rather than mkinitrd for some setups (i.e. those with LVM volumes
> defined in /etc/fstab)
> 
> It would be good if people here could test as we will likely make it the
> default at some point in the not too distant future.
> 
> To test:
> 
> sudo -i (or su -)
> urpmi dracut
> cd /boot
> mv initrd-3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img initrd-old.img
> /sbin/installkernel -N 3.1.0-desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2
> 
> 
> This should install dracut, move the existing initrd out of the way, and
> regenerate a new one using dracut. If you are using a different kernel
> version then adjust the two commands accordingly to pick the right version.
> 
> Then just reboot. Hopefully all will go well and you won't notice much
> difference :)
Indeed it did reboot without too much problem here with lvm for / & /home.
However i noticed that the initrd is bigger than the old mkinitrd :
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 7,8M oct.  20 22:40 initrd-3.1.0-
desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img
-rw-------  1 root root 5,4M oct.  18 09:50 initrd-3.1.0-
desktop-0.rc10.1.mga2.img-old

During the creation of the initrd there's several warnings  about moving 
several files to /etc/modprobe.d/ (such as the 
/etc/modprobe.conf), i noticed especially this one 

« perl: "include /lib/module-init-tools/modprobe.compat" is deprecated, please 
use /etc/modprobe.d 
»
It seems this file was created to ensure transition between the 2.4 & 2.6 
kernel release, maybe we can safely drop it now ?

Regards,

-- 
Balcaen John
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